Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:39:47 +0100 | From | Marek Habersack <> | Subject | Re: user- vs kernel-level resource sandbox for Linux? |
| |
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:13:03AM +1100, Peter Chubb scribbled: > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> writes: > > Jeff> grendel@caudium.net said: > >> I would appreciate any pointers to the userland solutions for that > >> problem (if any exist) before I resort to Xen/UML. > > Jeff> UML would be exactly what you're looking for. > > Jeff> Jeff > > apart from the performance hit :-( that's the problem...
> > There have been a number of different approaches proposed in the past > to limit real memory usage per-process; search for RSS limit in the > archives. per-process isn't enough. I specifically need something to limit the memory usage on a more global scale - per user ID or per process group or a similar way of grouping related processes. That's the only way to tame processes like apache. At this point the option I'm considering is Xen, unless I can find a userland solution to the problem...
regards,
marek [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |